We migrate you to Google Apps

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We help businesses move their enterprise email to Google apps. Here are some reasons to do so:

 

Security first

Google Apps includes dozens of critical security features specifically designed to keep your data safe, secure and in your control. Your data belongs to you, and Apps tools enable you to control it, including who you share it with and how you share it. Our data center network provides exceptional security and guarantees* reliable access to your data, 24x7x365.25 (that’s right: no rest, even on leap years).

 

Stay connected from anywhere

With Google Apps, all your work is automatically saved in the cloud. You’ll have access to your email, calendar, documents, and sites and be able to work securely, no matter where you are in the world and what device you’re on.

For your business, this means every employee and everyone you work with can be productive from anywhere, using any device with an Internet connection.

 

Work better together

Google Apps helps you and your team work faster and smarter by making it easy for everyone – employees, partners, vendors, anyone – to collaborate effortlessly across teams, companies and locations.

Google Apps lets you share and edit many types of files – docs, spreadsheets, presentations and more – in real time. Forget all the time-wasting email back and forth over multiple file versions; storing docs in the cloud means everyone automatically has the latest version of any file. Doesn’t that make sense?

 

Get stuff done faster

Google Apps can help streamline everyday tasks like invoicing, budgeting, scheduling and more. You can create an invoice template in Google Docs, balance your budget by sharing a single spreadsheet or let Google Calendar suggest times for your team to meet. By removing these time-consuming bottlenecks, Apps frees you up to spend more time on the work that really matters.

 

Invisible IT that just works

Spend less time managing your IT infrastructure. Your employees always have access to the latest software, including the newest features and security updates. You don’t need to buy or maintain servers and everything can be managed from a single interface.

Google Apps is quick to set up, can grow with your business, and costs just $5 per user per month – only two cups of coffee per month.

 

 

Go Green

Moving to Google Apps helps reduce both your company’s overall expenses and its environmental impact. Apps is powered by Google’s energy-efficient data centers, so it’s less energy and carbon-intensive than on-premise servers.

 

 

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VMware ties disaster recovery to vSphere

VMware’s Site Recovery Manager now supports vSphere, eliminating one of the obstacles preventing customers from updating to the latest version of VMware’s virtualization platform.

vSphere 4, the succesor to ESX 3.5, was unveiled in April ’09 but until now did not work with Site Recovery Manager, VMware’s software for recovering virtual machines in case of disaster.

VMware has now released SRM version 4, with support for vSphere and other upgrades including a “many-to-one failover (that) protects multiple production sites with automatic failover into a single, shared recovery site.”

Because SRM did not immediately support vSphere, numerous customers have delayed upgrades from 3.5, acknoledges John Bock, productmarketing manager for VMware’s server business unit.

Google Wave

Individuals engage in “hosted communications” called waves. Waves can consist of any combination of conversations (such as email and IM) and documents (collaboration), providing rich interaction via text, photos, videos, maps, and more, according to Google. If you think of how an email thread and an IM conversation might be combined into a single entity, that’s pretty much a wave. A playback capability lets participants “rewind” the wave at any point and review what’s already happened. You can edit any part of the wave at any time, and it’s always possible to see who did what. Some Wave capabilities Google has highlighted so far include realtime collaboration, natural language tools (including context-sensitive spell checking), and Google Wave’s extensibility model, which lets third-party developers add gadgets to the platform and embed waves in other sites.

Google Wave runs completely in the browser. It’s based on HTML 5 and Google Web Toolkit, and its basic layout is similar to Microsoft Outlook’s. It features a multi-pane (“panel” to Google) interface with Navigation (“folders” like Inbox) and Contacts panes on the left, the selected folder in the middle (which Google calls the Search panel), and, on the right, the selected wave (the message, in an email application). Similarity to Outlook and other email applications was no doubt intentional, to help users make the transition to this new communications and collaboration model. When you create a new wave, you typically start as you would with an email message, by typing a message (as contrasted with an IM where you select a contact or group of contacts first). You can then add users—or participants, as Wave calls them—using a pop-up window.
To users participating in a wave, the experience is very much like email. You hit Reply to write your response. This can happen offline, where the conversation is conducted like a long-distance chess match via email. But waves go beyond email by providing for live, interactive conversations—like IM—and by providing more granular ways to
converse. With IM, you can typically see that the other participant is typing a message (because it will say something like “Rafael is typing…”) but you don’t see the message as its being typed. With Wave, you do. In the future you’ll be able to drag and drop multimedia content, like pictures and video, into a wave. This feature isn’t supported by the
HTML 5 standard, so Google is working to get it added. You’ll also be able to embed a wave in a traditional web site, to
allow others to participate in a conversation from the web, adding their own comments and replies. (You can also just create waves from these sites and forego the Wave web app entirely if you want.)